Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Silvetone and Selvestone, from the genitive case of an Old English personal name, either Sǣwulf (see Self) or Sigewulf (‘victory wolf’) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
- Translation of German and Ashkenazic Jewish Silberstein.